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Pineta


Particle Physics and Pony Fiction Experimentalist

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  • 9 weeks
    Eclipse 2024

    Best of luck to everyone chasing the solar eclipse tomorrow. I hope the weather behaves. If you are close to the line of totality, it is definitely worth making the effort to get there. I blogged about how awesome it was back in 2017 (see: Pre-Eclipse Post, Post-Eclipse

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  • 17 weeks
    End of the Universe

    I am working to finish Infinite Imponability Drive as soon as I can. Unfortunately the last two weeks have been so crazy that it’s been hard to set aside more than a few hours to do any writing…

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  • 20 weeks
    Imponable Update

    Work on Infinite Imponability Drive continues. I aim to get another chapter up by next weekend. Thank you to everyone who left comments. Sorry I have not been very responsive. I got sidetracked for the last two weeks preparing a talk for the ATOM society on Particle Detectors for the LHC and Beyond, which took rather more of my time than I

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  • 21 weeks
    Imponable Interlude

    Everything is beautiful now that we have our first rainbow of the season.

    What is life? Is it nothing more than the endless search for a cutie mark? And what is a cutie mark but a constant reminder that we're all only one bugbear attack away from oblivion?

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  • 23 weeks
    Quantum Decoherence

    Happy end-of-2023 everyone.

    I just posted a new story.

    EInfinite Imponability Drive
    In an infinitely improbable set of events, Twilight Sparkle, Sunny Starscout, and other ponies of all generations meet at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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    This is one of the craziest things that I have ever tried to write and is a consequence of me having rather more unstructured free time than usual for the last week.

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Mar
11th
2016

360 Degree Tour of the Large Hadron Collider · 6:14pm Mar 11th, 2016


Vector

360 degree tour of CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Best watched on a phone or tablet so you can pan by moving your device.

Comments ( 6 )

This was so cool. Thanks for introducing me to it. I had no idea you could do that with a phone on YouTube.

Derpy + LHC =

Um.

I don't think they make bomb shelters deep enough.

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Planet X looks nice this time of year. :twilightoops:

Cool video. Panning worked fine in the HTML5 player in Firefox.

However, I must take this opportunity to nitpick inconsequential nerd stuff on the Internet! Since these videos let you pan around the inside of a sphere, they show a solid angle of 4π steradians, not a planar angle of 360 degrees.

This is a good video. In an Alternate Universe, a similar video went up on 2006-03-11 giving a 2τr^2 (2τ Steradians (2τ sr)) of the SuperConducting Super Collider.

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1 True CircleConstant is τ (Tau):

τ = c / r ≈ 6.28318530717959

The video is 2τr^2 (2τ Steradians (2τ sr)).

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